Borys Lankosz
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March 31, 1973 Kraków, Poland |
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter |
Borys Lankosz (born 31 March 1973 in Cracow) - Polish film director. He graduated from National Film School in Łódź. His debut film "Evolution" (2001) received several awards, i.a. the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival. He is the creator of the documentary series From a Different Angle, filmed in Iran, China and Zimbabwe, and the films Kurc and Poles Poles (with Wislawa Szymborska, Stanislaw Lem, Krzysztof Penderecki).
His feature debut titled Rewers (Reverse) won first prize, the Golden Lion, on Polish Film Festival in 2009 in Gdynia. Lankosz is also a director and screenwriter of several documentary and short films: Radegast (documentary film), Alien VI (short).
Lankosz is a graduate of National Film School in Łódź, a noted academy which counts directors such as Roman Polanski and Krzysztof Kieślowski among its graduates, where he studied under Polish film director Wojciech Has.
Lankosz’s diploma film, a 2001 documentary entitled Evolution, won the 45th San Francisco International Film Festival as well as many other international and Polish film festivals. The jury in San Francisco decided to award the film "because of its remarkable mood, tone and beauty." According to the jury, Evolution's "every shot, cut, sound effect conspires to involve the audience in its tense, astonishing and provocative world. [...] Its grip is unrelenting, and lasts long after it’s beautiful final moments."
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